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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

2004 · directed by Stephen Hillenburg · 87 min
23,674 feet · Prominence
938th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw63

$141m worldwide in 2004 — $246m in today's money.

As released$141mIn 2026 money$246mRank1,350 of 8,589In 200436 of 209

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise68

Critics 68, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 68.

Critics68 → 34Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy50

Judged directly: Generational cartoon touchstone, meme-rich.

Verdict50 of 100IMDb7.2 from 110kWikipedia44k views a monthAge22 years

Scored beside it · 825 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 63 praise 68 legacy 50averages 60, which places it at23,674 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Scarlett Johansson21,571 ft